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Teaching Play Skills to Elementary Students
Initiating play with others is essential for joining playgroups and friends, especially since most friendships at young ages are formed at recess. It requires seeking someone or a group, asking, joining, and including others. Accepting no for an answer when others decline your invitation to play is also taught as a social grace.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Play Skills Material PDF
1. Break Down the Steps
Review asking someone to play in three easy steps; first get close enough (but not too close) to be heard, next get their attention by looking at or near them and greeting them, and finally ask them to play by giving them a toy or suggesting what to play.
2. Watch a Peer Model the Skills
Have peers role play asking each other to play or better yet watch our video-modeling lessons! We have many different video lessons which teach how to ask others to play across different contexts like during recess, on the playground, or during unstructured playtime at school.
3. Use Our Free Asking Others to Play Goal Poster
Teaching new concepts or skills is so much easier with a visual! Use our downloadable goal poster as a reference point when you talk about the three steps above to ask a friend to play.
Sample Asking Others to Play Video:
As mentioned above, we have so many examples and models of children asking others to play in our video lessons! The one below features peers asking to join a group playing on the playground! Check out our free 30-day trial to gain access to thousands of no-prep materials & video lessons!
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